Browns must locate QB1

The Cleveland Browns could be one player away from making the playoffs. Unfortunately, that player is the most important one on the football field.

The lack of a stable, playmaking signal-caller has been the biggest hole in Cleveland for the past generation -- there are 18-year-old Browns fans who have never seen solid quarterback play from their team.

New general manager Ray Farmer and coach Mike Pettine shored up all the other needy areas. On paper the Browns are stellar at every position outside of quarterback. They will add one in the NFL draft; it just comes down to which round and how ready he will be to start.

Relying on Brian Hoyer coming off an ACL tear is straight folly and there are no difference makers left on the open market. (Please don't try to sell Rex Grossman here; in Chicago you can get slapped on the street for just saying his name.)

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For this offense to pick up where it left off last season, Andy Reid must source new playmakers in the passing game. Dwayne Bowe is overpaid and hardly an inspiring No. 1 after squeezing out just 57 catches in 2013.

Alex Smith lit up the Colts for 363 yards in the wild-card loss to Indy, but the Chiefs finished the year as the 24th-ranked air attack and a lowly 27th in yards per attempt (6.5). Staring at a receiver-rich draft class, it's time for Reid to rip off the training wheels and find one -- maybe two -- field-stretching targets who can diversify this offense.

-- Marc Sessler

If not Revis, then who for Jets?

The Jets had the opportunity last month to pull off something that was nearly unthinkable six months ago. Darrelle Revis was on the open market, and reportedly open to returning to the team that had traded him away less than a year earlier.

Where does that leave the Jets? Dee Milliner made positive strides as his rocky rookie season progressed, but he hardly seems ready to take on the No. 1 corner role. The team added some depth with Dimitri Patterson, but durability issues (he's played 15 games in the past three seasons) keep him from being a realistic starting option. Could the Jets use their first-round pick on a cornerback for the third time in five years? It's certainly possible.

Eli needs a tight end

A big part of getting Eli Manning right goes back to building around him. Finding a pass-catching tight end should be at the top of the Giants' list as they inch toward the draft.

Brandon Myers was the team's third-leading receiver last season, a telling stat when you consider Myers didn't play particularly well in his one season in New York. The team signed Kellen Davis away from the Seahawks, but expecting Davis to be anything more than a blocking tight end is asking for trouble.

Jermichael Finley makes sense for this team if the Giants are comfortable with the medical side. If not, eyes turn to a draft class not believed to be teeming with NFL-ready talent at the position.

The organization has openly talked about needing to add running backs in this draft, and coach Ken Whisenhunt is coming from a San Diego team that turned the clock back to 1970s football. Tennessee's approach in free agency indicates that they are planning to grab a bell cow in the draft, probably during the second or third round.